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Legendary Apple engineer Bill Atkinson has died at 74.
Atkinson’s family announced that he passed away last Thursday due to pancreatic cancer. Employee number 51 at Apple, Atkinson worked on the Macintosh, MacPaint, and HyperCard.
Wired and Daring Fireball have even more details on his life and career, and Apple CEO Tim Cook writes, “He was a true visionary whose creativity, heart, and groundbreaking work on the Mac will forever inspire us.” In this video about Apple’s influential pre-Macintosh ‘OK’ computer, you can hear Bill Atkinson talk about the Lisa, and how, in his words, it “contributed toward the idea that computers were for everyone.”
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